Maintenance Apprentice Level 3
Collins Aerospace Actuation Systems
Oxfordshire, OX16 4XD
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 2 February)
Posted on 17 January 2025
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Summary
This apprenticeship offers career progression in Maintenance and Facilities, with mentorship and support to fuel your development. You’ll be accountable for servicing, repairing, and maintaining the site’s buildings, infrastructure, and equipment, ensuring business needs and customer expectations are met across schedule, cost, quality, and scope.
- Annual wage
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£15,500 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Starting salary of £15500 with annual increments throughout the program
- Training course
- Engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 08:00 - 16:15 and Friday, 08:00 - 14:15
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 22 September
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
- Service, repair, and maintain site buildings, infrastructure, and manufacturing equipment
- Ensure business and customer needs are met across key areas such as Schedule, Cost, Quality, and Scope
- Drive excellence by embodying our core values of Engaged, Empowered, and Accountable
- Demonstrate strong organisation, attention to detail, and a passion for hands-on engineering, while solving complex challenges
Where you’ll work
Chalker Way
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 4XD
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Engineering technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
Engineering Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
In your first year, you'll attend Engineering Trust in Bicester to learn basic maintenance engineering skills.
Then, you’ll apply this knowledge on-site, learning from skilled engineers.
The 4-year apprenticeship, a partnership between Collins Aerospace and Engineering Trust, covers:
- Understanding technical documentation
- Performing system diagnosis, repairs, and modifications
- Becoming multi-skilled when required
- Applying safe, efficient methods to maintain machinery
- Liaising with external service and parts providers
- Assisting in Root Cause Analysis and identifying improvements
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
- Science (grade 5)
- Total of 5 GCSEs inc Maths, English & Science (grade 5)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this company
The role is based at our Collins Aerospace Composite Center of Excellence facility in Banbury, UK – formerly the Crompton Technology Group (CTG) – designs, qualifies and manufactures high-performance structural and non-structural aerospace composite products for military and commercial applications.
Company benefits
185 hours holiday per annum (not including Bank Holidays) Employee Assistance Programme Private Healthcare and Dental Cover Competitive pension scheme
After this apprenticeship
- Career progression in maintenance engineering typically starts with roles such as Maintenance Technician, progressing to Senior Technician or Maintenance Engineer
- With experience, professionals can advance to supervisory or management roles, like Maintenance Manager or Engineering Manager
- Specialising in areas such as reliability engineering or faccility management further enhances career growth
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000296914.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 2 February)
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Company’s application instructions
Successful candidates will be invited to complete an online interview followed by a face to face assessment centre at our Banbury facility in March